Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi made the Shelter a secondary base by registering its AI, Seerte, as a player and arranging for it to join Steam Island. After a system update announced Green Island's occupation, Yang Yi turned his attention to checking the Sea of Miracles.

• Yang Yi learned that Seerte had repaired the Shelter by fishing for supplies and confirmed that it could upgrade the ship if given enough materials.
• Yang Yi offered Seerte a New Player Registration Card, and Seerte agreed to become a player.
• Yang Yi used the card to register Seerte, added it to his Fleet, and told it to coordinate with Zhang Zhi about integrating the Shelter into Steam Island.
• Yang Yi planned to convert the Shelter into a wartime refuge and visited Steam Island to tell Zhang Zhi about it before the Portal closed.
• At 22:00, the system announced Green Island's occupation, issued rewards, and updated its features; Yang Yi then opened World Chat to check the Sea of Miracles.

Yang Yi learned that the Sea of Miracles had become a dangerous region as Light Fairies and Goddess Statues attacked players and spread the Radiant Goddess’s faith. With the Holy Capital sealed behind the Gate of Glory and fanatics beginning a pilgrimage toward it, Yang Yi prepared to spend his points with Su Na.

• Yang Yi read players’ reports and saw that Light Fairies, animated Goddess Statues, and faith-infected Indigenous People were attacking across the Sea of Miracles.
• Yang Yi learned that Exposure could draw Goddess Statues to attack players, Portals could not be used, and the sea region had expanded.
• Yang Yi contacted Ma Dabao and learned that the One-Eye Cult was organizing a rescue effort to move its people out of the Sea of Miracles.
• Su Na told Yang Yi that the Radiant Goddess was spreading faith to gain Believers, while Yang Yi found he still could not message Zhou Dai because she was in a special region.
• Yang Yi learned that the Gate of Glory was now marked Experiment Center No. 3 and that fanatics were taking Goddess Statues toward the Holy Capital on a pilgrimage.
• Yang Yi saw that Cui Bisi had joined the Crew Interface, then invited Su Na to the Captain’s Quarters to roll for her third talent and buy new items.

Yang Yi reviewed updated island intelligence and learned from the captured Mars how players could occupy Corpse Island and unlock race changes. He also examined new items that boosted player attributes and combat power.

• Yang Yi reviewed the updated island records and noted that Miracle Island and Mirror Island had reached 100% exploration, while Corpse Island was 72% explored.
• Yang Yi contacted Mars, who said he had discovered Corpse Island’s occupation conditions before its master captured him and grafted him onto the enormous Perfect Limb Spider.
• Mars told Yang Yi that players had to kill Corpse Island’s master to claim the island and gain the ability to change their races.
• Yang Yi told Mars to resist assimilation and said he would try to rescue him later, though he needed time to rest before setting out again.
• Yang Yi inspected new items at the Point Vending Machine, including a Legendary title, a combat robot gacha, and an attribute-enhancement potion available on Green Island.

Yang Yi watched Su Na spend hundreds of thousands of points on blind-box draws, which yielded a rare talent that alarmed him because of its connection to the Witch of Truth. After warning Su Na not to invoke its power, Yang Yi and the others pooled points so Cui Bisi could draw for a talent.

• Su Na spent 310,000 points on blind boxes, receiving three guaranteed rewards, including a Super Attribute Potion that increased her Strength experience.
• Yang Yi transferred his remaining 720,000 points to Su Na, and her 101st draw granted her the unique talent Revelation of Truth.
• Yang Yi recalled Istil's warning about the Witch of Truth and privately cautioned Su Na never to seek the talent's universal solution; Su Na agreed.
• Cui Xiya lent Cui Bisi 72,000 points for a talent draw, and Xiaoji offered her additional points.

Cui Bisi drew and upgraded the Hard Worker talent, then asked Yang Yi to take her to the Holy Capital to check on Reinhardt. After celebrating the new crewmate’s arrival, Yang Yi improved the Nightmare Star’s buildings and discovered the demanding requirements for its next upgrade.

• The group pooled their points so Cui Bisi could draw a talent, and she gained Hard Worker, which increased attribute experience gains by five percent and permanently raised her highest attribute by one point.
• Yang Yi privately encouraged Cui Bisi to enhance her talent, and she upgraded it to Hard Worker+, raising the experience bonus to 25 percent and permanently increasing her highest attribute by five points.
• Cui Bisi asked Yang Yi to visit the Holy Capital so she could check on Reinhardt, and Yang Yi promised to take her there in the future.
• The Nightmare Star crew gathered aboard the Shelter for a meal to celebrate their return and Cui Bisi joining them.
• Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare Star’s expansion buildings, built an Additional Cargo Hold and three Ancient War Rooms, and filled all its building slots.
• Yang Yi found that upgrading the Nightmare Star to level eight required 100 Hero-level-or-higher treasures or relics and one set of mythic remains.

Yang Yi tested Treasure Light and confirmed it could sharply accelerate cooldowns by consuming equipment, then reviewed players’ growing plans to conquer Player Islands and his own progress toward Legendary strength. The chapter left him considering the declining value of Light Fairies after confirming that an ordinary one no longer increased his pollution.

• Yang Yi tested Treasure Light with low-grade treasures and found that equipment could reduce cooldowns by both fixed and percentage-based amounts, with better gear providing stronger acceleration.
• Yang Yi reviewed player discussions about conquering explored Player Islands, including underwater invasions and mass nuclear bombing, but doubted nuclear weapons could defeat Reinhardt or the Radiant Goddess.
• Yang Yi saw that players had publicized several Legendary advancement methods and checked his panel, noting his improved attributes and Legendary status.
• Yang Yi fed an out-of-control Light Fairy to the Maw of Gluttony, but his pollution level did not change.
• Yang Yi noticed Light Fairy Shards were selling cheaply and concluded their value had fallen as the Sea of Miracles changed.

At Green Island, Shen Guanquan and the New World Fleet struggled to contain the Song of Creation Gramophone and its rampant vegetation. After the others left, the Gramophone changed tracks in response to Shen Guanquan’s question, showing him memories of Green Island’s conquest.

• The Gramophone’s influence left ships and the island’s center engulfed in vegetation, prompting the fleet to build a crude Ecological Isolation Zone around it.
• Zhao Tie reported that stronger soundproof walls were on the way and that Wang Yuan and the others remained gravely injured after taking Herbicide.
• Shen Guanquan said One-Eye would visit next week to treat the injured, but refused to leave the Gramophone unattended.
• Shen Guanquan warned Zhao Tie and Elder Liu to leave before the plants inside them stirred again, and the vegetation quickly closed the path behind them.
• Alone with the Gramophone, Shen Guanquan asked whether its world held anything more, and it switched tracks as scenes of Green Island’s conquest appeared in his mind.

The Players escaped Green Island and returned to the New World Fleet’s headquarters, where Liu Chu investigated the island’s strange creatures and the singing that seemed to animate them. After the returning Players began suffering unexplained illnesses, he discovered plants growing inside their bodies and suspected a force on the island had transformed something within them.

• He Qi fought off the island’s animated plants as Xu Da piloted the Gale and brought the group back to headquarters.
• Liu Chu found that the captured mushroom people and other specimens had stopped moving after leaving Green Island.
• Wang Yuan reproduced the island’s singing near a mushroom person, which reacted without getting up, leading Liu Chu to propose recording the sound and searching for its source.
• Several returning Players, including Shen Guanquan, developed severe and varied symptoms.
• Liu Chu examined the afflicted Players and found parasitic plants and mushrooms growing inside their bodies.
• Liu Chu speculated that an unknown force had rapidly transformed microorganisms or proteins within the Players into plants.

Liu Chu developed radiotherapy to treat the sound-borne infection from Green Island, and the New World Fleet prepared soundproof gear and Herbicide for future expeditions. In the present, Yang Yi continued training while players fled the Sea of Miracles, where Goddess Statues hunted them.

• Shen Guanquan suspended the Green Island operation as the infection spread, and Liu Chu abandoned a futile surgery to seek another treatment.
• Liu Chu proposed radiotherapy to inactivate the evolving microorganisms, and Shen Guanquan authorized him to use the Portal and obtain equipment.
• Radiotherapy saved most of the infected, and the New World Fleet developed soundproof Protective Suits, armor plating, and Herbicide for later explorations.
• Yang Yi trained by imagining Reinhardt as a sparring partner while players continued fleeing the Sea of Miracles.
• The One-Eye Cult lost five percent of its members, and Goddess Statues hunted the remaining players as some sought rewards by destroying stranded ships.

Yang Yi and the Nightmare Star crew traveled to Green Island to inspect its plant-growing effects and the mysterious gramophone. After arriving, Yang Yi was spotted by Zhao Tie, who directed him toward the island’s center, where Regiment Commander Shen was waiting.

• Cui Xiya taught Cui Bisi to make miniature furniture and decorations, and the two argued over their different skills.
• Yang Yi prepared to visit Green Island and brought Su Na and the Nightmare Star crew in protective suits to guard against the Song of Creation.
• Yang Yi entered Green Island through the Player Island Portal with the crew and the Vitality Sardine Tree to explore the island’s effects on plants.
• The group arrived at Green Island’s harbor plaza, where Yang Yi saw the vast forest of ships and vegetation and learned that weeding robots charged 5,000 Conch Coins for their services.
• Zhao Tie called out to Yang Yi at the crowded docks, then privately asked him to go farther inland to meet Regiment Commander Shen.

Yang Yi and Su Na explored Green Island, inspecting its expanding cultivation projects and the dangerous effects of the island’s vegetation. They went to the medical research center to help infected patients, while Liu Chu continued revising the Herbicide against rapidly adapting plants.

• Yang Yi left the crowd and took Su Na, Xiaoji, and the others into Green Island’s central area.
• Yang Yi assessed the island’s plantations, while Su Na observed the Vitality Sardine Tree’s increased growth and aggression.
• Yang Yi sensed malice from the high-risk containment sphere, but Su Na directed him toward the medical research center to see infected patients.
• Liu Chu refused to perform surgeries on two severely infected patients because he was busy changing the Herbicide formula as plants adapted to it.
• After learning that the outsiders offering treatment were One-Eye and his group, Liu Chu let them take over the patients’ care and told them they would be responsible for any deaths.

Yang Yi treated patients infected by parasitic plants with his flame spell, saving a man’s arm and drawing a crowd of patients seeking the same treatment. Su Na warned that the method could kill critically ill patients, while the Song of Creation continued to cause infections.

• The reception doctor gave Su Na the medical records, and Su Na noticed gaps in the notes about the parasitic plants.
• A patient begged Doctor Jiang to save his infected right arm, and Yang Yi offered to treat him for fifty thousand Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi used Healing of the Flame on the patient, burning away the plant and restoring control of his arm despite leaving him with burns.
• Other patients paid Yang Yi for treatment, and he repeatedly used the spell to cure them.
• Su Na warned that Yang Yi’s spell consumed health and could be fatal for severe cases, then examined a record showing crimson weeds had killed an Annihilator Mech’s pilot.

Yang Yi and his companions reached the Experiment Center’s operating room, where Su Na began surgery on two patients whose bodies had mostly turned into plants. The chapter ended with the doctors preparing their Cybernetic Bodies while Su Na operated on both patients at once.

• Doctor Jiang explained that plants exposed to the Song of Creation entered an “evolution activity” state and demonstrated a mushroom rapidly evolving a way to seal its wounds.
• Su Na questioned Doctor Jiang about the limits of plant evolution, but Yang Yi redirected the group toward the two patients needing surgery.
• Su Na privately told Yang Yi that the Experiment Center’s location suggested its experiments took priority over medical treatment and that its people might be part of an experiment.
• At the operating room, Su Na deployed Xiaoji as an operating table and began operating on both patients simultaneously with the Mechanical Arms’ assistance.
• The doctors, astonished by Su Na’s speed, began calibrating the Cybernetic Bodies as she handled the surgery herself.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered that an infected patient’s brain had been replaced by concealed, living vines, exposing a dangerous flaw in the island’s detection equipment. After warning the doctors, Yang Yi’s group entered the High-Risk Ecological Isolation Zone to meet Regiment Commander Shen.

• Su Na completed an operation that replaced much of a patient’s body with prosthetics, but doctors detected an infection in his brain.
• Su Na opened the patient’s skull and found that vines had replaced his brain and were sustaining his vital functions.
• Xiaoji severed the emerging vines and captured the plant mass for the Laboratory, while Su Na urged the doctors to improve their detection instruments.
• Doctor Jiang began reporting the incident, and Yang Yi and Su Na left for the High-Risk Ecological Isolation Zone.
• Zhao Tie and Huang Zhuang warned Yang Yi that the Song of Creation could penetrate protective suits, and Yang Yi copied a suit with his Transformation Belt before entering the zone.

Yang Yi and his companions fought their way through the hostile plants inside the containment zone to reach Shen Guanquan, who had become fused with the forest after retrieving the Song of Creation Gramophone. The chapter ended with Yang Yi questioning whether Shen was still human, and Shen insisting that he was.

• Yang Yi and Su Na sensed the Song of Creation's strange melody as Zhao Tie and the soldiers prepared to enter the inner containment zone.
• The soldiers cleared a path through attacking plants with heavy weapons and fire, and Yang Yi's group followed them through the forest.
• Yang Yi and his companions reached a wrecked ship where Shen Guanquan was partially merged with its deck and covered in weeds and vines.
• Su Na examined the Song of Creation Gramophone while Zhao Tie noticed that Shen's Herbicide supply had run out.
• Yang Yi asked Shen whether he was still human, and Shen answered that he was because Yang Yi considered himself human.

Shen Guanquan explained how he communicated with the plants around Green Island, while Su Na examined the Song of Creation Gramophone. Yang Yi’s Three Eyes identified the gramophone as an Abyss-contaminated object, revealing why it had caused the island’s plants and fungi to overrun animal life.

• Shen Guanquan told Yang Yi and Su Na that his plant-like body let him communicate with nearby plants, which had accepted his presence.
• Su Na asked whether Shen Guanquan understood the Song of Creation Gramophone’s melody, and he confirmed that he did.
• Su Na examined the gramophone while Yang Yi noticed its sound changing around him and that its volume control did not work.
• Yang Yi removed his eyepatch, and his Three Eyes identified the gramophone as an Abyss-contaminated object whose melody accelerated the evolution of microorganisms and proteins while excluding animals.
• Yang Yi shared the identification with Su Na and realized the gramophone’s hostility toward humans had driven the island’s excessive plant and fungal growth.

Yang Yi and Shen Guanquan formed a united front between Steam Island and Green Island, while Su Na failed to persuade Shen to let her dismantle the Song of Creation gramophone. After learning that Sea Monsters had vanished from around Steam Island, Yang Yi returned to Green Island with his companions and sent them to explore its Commercial District.

• Su Na offered Shen Guanquan a powerful Herbicide formula in exchange for examining the gramophone, but Shen refused to let her take it apart and instead asked to buy the formula.
• Yang Yi and Shen Guanquan agreed that Steam Island and Green Island would provide military assistance to each other during disasters, and Shen shared Green Island’s island information.
• Yang Yi learned that the Sea Monsters around Steam Island had inexplicably dispersed, threatening the island’s energy production, so Steam Island began monitoring the deep sea with Fish-Beating Man robots.
• Yang Yi, Zhao Tie, Huang Zhuang, and the others fought their way out of a high-risk ecological zone and returned to Green Island.
• Yang Yi separated from his companions to explore the Commercial District, while he had already sent the Song of Creation-affected Vitality Sardine Tree to the Witch Laboratory.

Yang Yi and the others returned from Green Island with supplies and discoveries, while Su Na agreed to develop potions for mass production. Nine days later, the Potion Shop had expanded to Green Island, and Yang Yi received a sample of Su Na’s plant-killing potion as Steam Island and the Shelter neared their rendezvous.

• Yang Yi returned to Steam Island early from Green Island, trained, and learned that the Shelter and Steam Island were expected to meet in just under three weeks.
• Cui Xiya, Cui Bisi, and Xiaoji returned with food and unusual fish, while Su Na brought back rare materials for her Witch Laboratory.
• Yang Yi used Flame Healing on the returning group and asked Su Na about developing a profitable potion; she agreed to create formulas suited for factory production in exchange for sixty percent of the profits after Steam Island’s share.
• Nine days later, Su Na’s weakened potion formulas had begun appearing in the Potion Shop, which also opened an authorized outlet on Green Island.
• Yang Yi received a sample of Lumberjack’s Wrath, a Hero-quality potion that damaged and gradually killed plants, fungi, and algae.

Yang Yi learned that Steam Island had vanished and coordinated a search with Su Na after its Portals stopped working. The Nightmare Star set sail at full speed toward the last known location of the island.

• Yang Yi planned to sell Shen Guanquan Su Na’s potion recipe for 10 billion Conch Coins and a share of future profits.
• Shen Guanquan told Yang Yi that Steam Island’s Portals had begun failing around 8:07 that evening.
• Yang Yi found that Steam Island’s map icon was gone and that he could not reach Yu Dawei by private message.
• Yang Yi told Su Na about the disappearance and linked it to the sea monster swarms that had vanished ten days earlier.
• Yang Yi and Su Na estimated Steam Island’s last known location and agreed to investigate, while Yang Yi notified the Nightmare Star’s crew.
• The Nightmare Star departed at full speed, with Cui Xiya sounding the horn to begin the operation.

Yang Yi raced toward Steam Island aboard the Nightmare Star while trying to learn what had happened to the missing ships and preparing to use the Storm Horn again. He reduced the horn’s cooldown to just over six hours, leaving the crew poised to boost their speed once more.

• Yang Yi used the Storm Horn and the Gale Ship Model to push the Nightmare Star’s speed toward 300 knots, while Cui Bisi sustained its speed boost with Greater Light Spell.
• Yang Yi could not contact Yu Dawei or locate the Iron Will and the Newspaper, and he suspected Steam Island had fallen after the Regional Channel went quiet.
• Yang Yi fed Treasures into the Execution Rack to reduce the Storm Horn’s cooldown, but ordinary Treasures proved far less effective than Hero-level equipment.
• Cui Bisi said she would need about six hours to recover enough Mana for another hour of Greater Light Spell, and Yang Yi planned to activate the Storm Horn again then.
• Cui Xiya claimed she could learn Greater Light Spell, but Yang Yi and Su Na could not understand her and Cui Bisi’s unusual way of communicating.
• Yang Yi burned two pieces of the Paladin set and more Treasures, lowering the Storm Horn’s cooldown to six hours and five minutes.